Two weeks ago I wrote about how the Olympics games had
bought the whole country together and almost a week into them we as the general
public are still enjoying them and cheering on are champions but today I want to
take a look at why I have a slight distaste to the way in which it has been
handled.
About two weeks before the Olympics kicked off I had a discussion about how they have been handled as a whole and what the finance benefit would be for hosting them and my points of view on both these subjects wasn't really appreciated. I originally said that "we as a country have not handle the arrival of the games very well because we as a country have been told to stay away from London, get earlier transport so that we can get to work and if needed to change are day to day routine and I believe that this was wrong". My reasoning behind this is that this is our country and we have every right to carry on with our normal day to day lives while also enjoying the games. In my opinion what they should have done is told us to be vigilant and to check the website for any chances and that was all.
Now when it comes to the finance side of the games I have always believe that there was always going to be more money spend on the games than we will be able to recoup and that it won't be "the get us out of recession" that everyone was hoping for. To a large point I have been correct about this because if you have listened to the news in the last few days you would have heard that business are suffering and not making the money they were hoping for. I believe that there are two reason for this, one being that we the locals have been told to stay away which in turn as reduced trade and the second reason is that everyone that has come to the country for the games are so wrapped up in them that they don't have the time or the need to go shopping.
Let's just hope it does leave the lasting legacy that they hoped.
Until next time.
About two weeks before the Olympics kicked off I had a discussion about how they have been handled as a whole and what the finance benefit would be for hosting them and my points of view on both these subjects wasn't really appreciated. I originally said that "we as a country have not handle the arrival of the games very well because we as a country have been told to stay away from London, get earlier transport so that we can get to work and if needed to change are day to day routine and I believe that this was wrong". My reasoning behind this is that this is our country and we have every right to carry on with our normal day to day lives while also enjoying the games. In my opinion what they should have done is told us to be vigilant and to check the website for any chances and that was all.
Now when it comes to the finance side of the games I have always believe that there was always going to be more money spend on the games than we will be able to recoup and that it won't be "the get us out of recession" that everyone was hoping for. To a large point I have been correct about this because if you have listened to the news in the last few days you would have heard that business are suffering and not making the money they were hoping for. I believe that there are two reason for this, one being that we the locals have been told to stay away which in turn as reduced trade and the second reason is that everyone that has come to the country for the games are so wrapped up in them that they don't have the time or the need to go shopping.
Let's just hope it does leave the lasting legacy that they hoped.
Until next time.
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